Contributed by Tapgirl. Posted by aubin on Monday, February 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM (EST)

The police officers investigating Lostprophets' vocalist Ian Watkins over the charges filed in December 2012 are under some scrutiny themselves now. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the officers and made this statement:

We received a referral from South Wales Police on 25 January 2013 relating to Ian Watkins. Following a thorough assessment I have decided that we will carry out an independent investigation. Our investigation will determine whether or not South Wales Police failed to take appropriate and timely action in relation to information they were in receipt of in advance of Mr Watkins subsequent arrest. We are aware of four forces having provided South Wales Police with information but, as criminal proceedings are active, it would be inappropriate to publish further information at this time.

According to the original report, the musician was charged with "conspiracy to rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a female under 13 and possession/distribution of indecent images of children."

How there are people that are making a martyr out of some psychotic piece of shit who killed legitimately innocent people is unreal to me, and they just sound like fucking idiots. His cause might have had some merit up until that point, but he killed the guys daughter and her boyfriend who had absolutely nothing to do with the LAPD or any corruption therein.

I think what we can all agree on is that any person who is or who has been any kind of police officer is probably not a good person. Police officers are trained to lie, cheat, and steal to "fight crime". They for the most part need no education and the training they receive is outdated by all measures. The only people who want to become officers are power hungry assholes. If they wanted to help people they would be nowhere near a police department, I'm so sick of people not realizing that we need college education for all police and all training needs to be brought up to date. I live in Portland where black kids and the mentally ill are gunned down at alarming rates and they never get in trouble or lose their jobs or improve their training. All they do is kill.

Hey, LatchKeyKid, I think that I can agree that you can go fuck yourself. What you said is so completely off-base and immature that it's laughable. And this is coming from someone who had to file a civil rights injunction with the FBI against the Douglass County, NE Police Department for brutality after a broken wrist and two broken fingers over nothing at all. I also spent three years inside dealing with correctional officers. While there certainly are an abundance of bad cops, the majority of police enter into service to do some good in the communities they police. Grow up.

I lived in Portland. If kids are getting shot by the cops, they probably deserved it. So much fucking violence in that city, it's ridiculous, and I'm not talking about cops-on-blacks. I'm not denying there are going to be cases where the cops are wrong, but fuck man... Imagine if there were no cops in Portland. You'd be dead or driving away within two days.

I've had a few bad experiences with cops (particularly in my tiny hometown but they were just horrible human beings) but for the most part I think a lot of them try to do good. When I worked in a residential treatment center and we had AWOL kids or needed to do mental health commitments and needed their assistance they were always helpful so it's hard to generalize so much.
I'm also not exactly sure what misconduct was committed here? Acting in a timely manner? This whole lostprofits story has been so weird.

Nope no agreement from me, how many police are there in the whole world? And all of them are corrupt? Shut up and never speak ever again, your life and everyone who comes in contact with you with be forever better for your silence. Thanks

I think what we can all agree on is that any person who is or who has been any kind of internet troll is probably not a good person. Internet trolls are trained to lie, cheat, and use bad syntax to "join in the conversation". They for the most part have no education and the ideas they express are outdated by all measures. The only people who want to become internet trolls are damaged, illiterate manchildren. If they had a good opinion they would be nowhere near computers, I'm so sick of people not realizing that just because you have an opinion you don't have to write down your idiot opinion and there should be an IQ test to get on the Internet. I read Punknews where morons and the mentally ill are posting bullshit at alarming rates and they never get in trouble or lose their commenting privileges or smarten the fuck up. All they do is talk out their asshole.

So are they saying the police waited too long to arrest him? Or that they arrested him too early? If it's the latter, that makes no sense, what were they supposed to sit and wait for him to molest a kid?

I think your initial question is the gist of it. I would also assume this, seeing as his girlfriend had originally gone to the police two (or was it four?) years ago concerning the kinds of allegations he's finally been arrested for.